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If you’re looking for a free and customizable uptime monitor, you can easily tweak a Google Docs account to do the dirty work for you.

Over at Digital Inspiration they share a great tutorial and bit of code for turning a Google Docs spreadsheet into a monitoring service. All you need is a Google account and a copy of their free spreadsheet to enjoy minute-by-minute monitoring with email alerts. Hit up the link below to read how to set it up and get a copy of the monitoring script.

Jason Fitzpatrick is warranty-voiding DIYer and all around geek. When he's not documenting mods and hacks he's doing his best to make sure a generation of college students graduate knowing they should put their pants on one leg at a time and go on to greatness, just like Bruce Dickinson. You can follow him on Google+ if you'd like.

Comments (6)

I have some issues with Google docs while sharing transient data, with this feature I am sure it’ll be easy for us to maintain the web site up-time but since the that’s here keeps changing, sharing of this info becomes tedious, I have been constantly looking for some alternatives of Google docs for this reason and have found one, it’s CollateBox http://www.collatebox.com/ it says easier than Excel, better than Google docs.
Need to give a closer look at this one once it is launched..

Thanks for sharing about CollateBox, I guess the feature of monitoring up time is through the technical code which is available in Google docs. by including this I guess Collatebox can function in a better fashion as it says better sharing than Google docs. With e-mail notifications and alerts.